by Christina Refford | Party Ideas
I confess: I have a love-hate relationship with planning birthday parties for my kids. While picking a theme can be fun, I also find it a little exhausting to sift through website after website looking for cool activities for a superhero party or the perfect...
by Stacie Billis | Food + Recipes
I’d completely forgotten how much energy–and energy-boosting drinks–it takes to keep our school year routine running smoothly. Summer wiped away the evidence of our hectic September-May life, but, just like having a newborn again, back-to-school...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good
Even if you’re nowhere near New York’s Fashion Week, let alone teetering in a pair of too-high stilettos over New York’s cobblestones this week (always good for a few giggles), you can help support one of my favorite organizations, Baby Buggy, the...
by Stephanie Mayers | Helpful Services
We all know that personalized items make a baby’s or kid’s gift ten times more special. While many of the big catalog stores offer custom embroidery, they’ll usually only personalize their own brand’s items–which is kind of limiting. So...
by Stephanie Mayers | Art + Decor
When I was a kid, instead of a growth chart, my parents measured us old-school style on the doorframe between the kitchen and the dining room. Quaint they were, but old-school doorway measurements had their drawbacks. Before my folks eventually painted over our...
by Cool Mom Team | Doing Good
For many of us, this is a sobering and painful day, one that we will always remember. Whether we lived through the darkness in NYC and DC 11 years ago, or we watched the terrible events unfold from our homes and offices far away, 9/11 will never be far from our...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Uncategorized
The Cool Moms (me especially) always check EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database before reviewing a product to make sure the ingredients meet a persnickety mom’s health and safety needs. Now we’re excited to announce that EWG is going further than Skin...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Don’t miss an exclusive discount just for Cool Mom Picks readers, below!We can’t help but get nostalgic seeing the wonderful new fall baby fashions for Zutano, since all of our older kids, now too big too fit them, wore so many of their amazing designs...
by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Adults
I admit, I’m a little over the “Yay, let’s celebrate moms who suck!” thing that seems to have grown in popularity over the last few years. However, the hilarious new book Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us may be one of the very...
